people of color. the el paso shooting mixing racial hate and violence together. a new piece on nbc news.com explores how people of color deal with skin lore, language and religion in today s heated racial environment. it reads in part olivia ortega is not sure she will continue speaking pan spanish in public places in west texas after a gunmaning mexicans opened fire in an el paso walmart earlier had month. clashes between far right nationalists and antifa protests underlines how this racial fault line festers. a new poll revealed more americans were worried about another possible attack from white nationalists than a major terror attack. nbc blk s janelle ross is one of the writers of that article and joins us on set. we re also joined by contributor victoria defran chess soso toe. janelle, just listening to that
outperformed al gore and john kerry among white voters in states like texas and the carolinas. has it occurred to holder that criticism of the president might be due to his performance and not his skin lore? wasn t president obama already elected in 2008 and reelected again in 2012? you said the same thing to me on cnn yesterday. do you think the white house is using the president s race as a scapegoat to deflect from his policies? and is that responsible politics? i think it s quite clear that that s exactly what is going on. he says not all of it is racially driven, but enough of it is to complain about it on national television. the issue here isn t whether racism still exists in the country. and the issue isn t whether it s ever appropriate for the president or the attorney general to talk about race. the issue is whether this administration is exploiting racial divisions in this country for political purposes, namely, to turn out minority voters in november. i think they are. an
be due to his performance and not his skin lore? wasn t president obama already elected in 2008 and reelected again in 2012? you said the same thing to me on cnn yesterday. do you think the white house is using the president s race as a scapegoat to deflect from his policies? and is that responsible politics? i think it s quite clear that that s exactly what is going on. he says not all of it is racially driven, but enough of it is to complain about it on national television. the issue here isn t whether racism still exists in the country. and the issue isn t whether it s ever appropriate for the president or the attorney general to talk about race. the issue is whether this administration is exploiting racial divisions in this country for political purposes, namely, to turn out minority voters in november. i think they are. and i think given this country s racial history, it s shameful. how would you have eric hold erred and the president answer a question, then, if he is asked ab